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GOCE Blitz wrap-up and September 2013 drive invitation

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GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

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GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive

Guild of Copy Editors October Blitz wrap-up Participation: Out of eleven people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we copy edited 42 articles from WikiProject Film's backlog, reducing it by a net of 34 articles. Hope to see you at the November drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor. Sign up for the November drive! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:31, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Pozo Colorado

Oh Hell nah I know that stuff I made changes for Pozo Colorado. Sh*t got me f*cked up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.124.127.166 (talk • contribs) 02:57, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Please provide a reference for changes such as this; unless a reference can be provided, these edits will be removed as they are significant changes to the page content. demize (t · c) 03:02, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Hydraulic tappet

Don't worry, it was constructive. 80.65.241.12 (talk) 04:08, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I had to go look at the page itself to see why: I was confusing Wikipedia markup with Markdown, where # signifies a heading. Sorry about that! demize (t · c) 04:12, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

November 2014 - Big East Men's Soccer Tournament

Thank you for correcting my mistaken removal of the content from the Big East Men's Soccer Tournament page. I submitted a draft of this page under the title Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament and was attempting to correct my error in creating a duplicate page - the Big East Men's Soccer Tournament. Perhaps you would be willing to assist with correcting this mistake? It would be best to delete the Big East Men's Soccer Tournament page and/or merge it with the pending draft Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament page. Thanks again for your assistance, Slyty3000 (talk) 19:59, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

First, you should make sure there's nothing left in Big East Men's Soccer Tournament that you haven't copied over to your draft. Once you've done that, then you can simply tag the article (not the draft) for speedy deletion under criterion U1 (User request) by placing {{db-u1}} at the top of the page and linking to this discussion either on the talk page or in the edit summary. The mistakenly created article should then be deleted by an administrator, and everything will be good! demize (t · c) 20:31, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Got it done. I certainly appreciate your help! Still in the process of learing. Thanks, Slyty3000 (talk) 20:44, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to STiki

Hello, Demize, and welcome to STiki! Thank you for your recent contributions using our tool. We at STiki hope you like using the tool and decide to continue using it in the future. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Information about STiki, including: Using STiki and its hotkeys Comparison with other tools Information about vandalism on Wikipedia Here are some pages which are a little more fun: The STiki leaderboard - See how you are faring against other STiki users! Userboxes - Do not hesitate to wear the STiki label with pride by choosing from a selection of userboxes! We hope you enjoy maintaining Wikipedia with STiki! If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions don't hesitate to drop a note over at the STiki talk page and we'll be more than happy to help. Again, welcome, and thanks! West.andrew.g (developer) and Widr (talk) 05:41, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Hermitage (restaurant)

Dear Demize,

hereby I request you sincerely to remove the note as it was yesterday, therefore this might have such a negative view of people checking on my fathers profile. Hope for your understanding, best regards, Alex KleinAlexqjklein (talk) 11:04, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

While I understand why you might wish to remove that part of the article, you can't just erase things that you don't like. Wikipedia aims to be a complete encyclopedia written from a neutral point of view, and so it is important that the reason for the restaurant closing is in the article. It cannot be removed as it is an important part of the restaurant's history. demize (t · c) 12:13, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Help!

I've had all I can take with the U-47700. I built the page hoping it would show something useful. Evidently it does NOT. Sorry to be so negative but I'm getting warnings that I might get banned just for deleting my own unwanted work. Thanks for your kind words, it really meant a lot to me but I have nothing to add and nobody else seems to have added much. There is a pure Kappa agonist that has 2 carbons from the aromatic instead of 1, I guess that shows that this class shows an important link, but do I build a page and have that rejected?

My best wishes to you and to everyone you care for, Delia

PS You need to choose a SMILES format. From the way the compound is drawn, I spent a LOT of time fixing this so at least they match... once again, nothing but bitching. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvwynn (talk • contribs) 16:53, 13 November 2014‎ UTC

I've replied on your talk page. demize (t · c) 17:12, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Between the Lions

The IP editor User:206.116.248.57 you warned for vandalism on the page Postcards from Buster has done vandalism on BTL's funding sections. Because some other edits were made between the editor's, can you revert the IP editor's edits? I already warned the user for these edits and for adding an unverified funding section in Toopy and Binoo. TheGGoose (talk) 14:27, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

I started to revert the edits manually, but after looking through the page history I decided the best thing to do for the moment was remove the section entirely: it was wholly unsourced and there was at least one rather suspect entry to it. I left a message on the talk page of the article explaining my actions there and asking an editor with knowledge of the show to take a look. demize (t · c) 15:44, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

I think it's fine to completely remove the section too. Thanks for removing the vandalism. TheGGoose (talk) 15:47, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you! and a challenge.

Okay Mr SuperBrain, name one other band member in the band Fat Hamster besides Will Champion! I do all this research and then you delete it because you think it is not salient, if you don't allow some updates then wiki has the same pablum as everyone else. If you can name the other member of Fat Hamster besides Jo Ann Ingham I will donate $100 to the Wiki foundation. I will have to contact her personally to find out this info, but it will be worth it. This is extreme trivia but important. It is as important is Stuart Suitcliffe or Tony Sheridan. Good luck!

Dzamula (talk) 20:15, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't personally take issue with including Jo Ann Ingham in that sentence, however the phrasing was awkward and the addition was unsourced. If you can provide a citation for her being a member of the band (which, considering there isn't a source for the existence of the band, would be truly excellent), then I would welcome the change. I might suggest phrasing it differently, as it's unclear who Jo Ann Ingham is. For example, if she was Will Champion's girlfriend at the time: Before joining Coldplay, Champion performed in a band called Fat Hamster with his then-girlfriend Jo Ann Coats (born Jo Ann Ingham). It would make a good addition provided it's properly sourced and provides context.

On another note, welcome to Wikipedia! I see you've been around for a while and you've made some constructive edits. I hope that you stick around! demize (t · c) 20:56, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Demize. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

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Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

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Closure doesn't make sense

"The users involved have been duly informed of WP:AR, and so it would appear that they're done here." WP:AR redirects to Wikipedia:WikiProject Argentina, I suspect that is not what you meant, did you mean WP:DR? --Obsidi (talk) 13:36, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, I've corrected it. I did indeed mean WP:DR. demize (t · c) 13:43, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

music video mashup

"however I have had to remove them as there were multiple issues with them, including improper use of the <ref> tag and the addition of improper external links in the article body." It's your message from my page for the music video mashup editing, I am not very clear what the mistakes are, could you please inform me in details, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yujiao Cheng (talk • contribs) 10:25, 26 November 2014‎ (UTC)

You appear to have fixed the reference tags now, however there is still the issue of inappropriate links in the article body. You should take a look at the external link policy, specifically the points on what external links not to include. At least one of the external links might be able to be turned into a reference instead (the article about Saloote), but the rest of them should be removed per the policy.

On another note, please remember to sign all your comments either by clicking the signature button in the toolbar above the editing box or typing four tildes after your comment: "~~~~". This helps people know who made comments without having to look through the page history, and it puts in a timestamp that many bots rely on for various purposes. demize (t · c) 12:28, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Director

Here is how willing is he is to discuss the matters on his talk page. It's a great thing, you know, to say: "I'm sorry... Can you please stop STALKING me? You're a troll". It's like first to punch some one in the face, then to say sorry and than to hit him even harder. Alex ^{discussion ★} 19:22, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

@Aleksa Lukic: I'm currently busy with other things and responding from my phone, so excuse my brevity. This doesn't appear to be a content dispute, nor does it really appear to be an issue of user conduct (either on your part or on Director's). If he's removing your comments from his talk page (even with an edit summary about reverting vandalism), then he probably doesn't want to take this any further. The best thing for you to do is to drop the stick and move on. Just ignore Director if he's ignoring you. If you want something done, you'll have to actually say what you want done. There's nothing I can do (and nothing any administrator can do) unless we know what exactly needs fixing. demize (t · c) 20:30, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Wrestlemania

Hi, the match at Wrestlemania 26 was a lumberjack match, the members of the hart family were not just present, but added as lumberjacks. You can just see the match as proof. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.14.222.29 (talk) 21:49, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

My apologies, the edit by itself looked like vandalism to me—I don't actually know much about wrestling, so I wasn't aware of what a lumberjack was in wrestling terms. I did some research just now, and it appears I was wrong in reverting that edit. Feel free to make it again! demize (t · c) 22:19, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate parameters

this edit added a template with multiple duplicate parameters |mask=. I commented that out. More through CAT:DUPARG. DePiep (talk) 00:32, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

@DePiep: that's actually how the mask parameter on that template works. It's not a template in the sense that most are, it's actually configuration for a bot. Multiple mask parameters tell the bot to include multiple pages. If you'd like more information, take a look at my BRFA and the configuration instructions for the bots mine is being written to replace. Thanks~ demize (t · c) 01:03, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Using a parameter name (or number) multiple times is not documented mw (it is not within accepted practice). (One of the issues is that the sequence becomes relevant). Recently, pages having double parameters are listed in CAT:DUPARG. I won't quarrel about this, but be prepared that more editors will come aling with this. And when templates themselves spread this bad habit they may be edited (corrected). -DePiep (talk) 01:09, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

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